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cudgel
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synonyms: truncheon, crabstick, ballow, oaken towel ???
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Definition:a short stick used as a weapon,to be beat with such a weapon
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I was thinking to myself, 'what's his leg now, but a cane-. a whale-bone cane. Yes,' thinks I, 'it was only a playful cudgelling— in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me— not a base kick.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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But one day, I took a thick cudgel, and threw it with all my strength so luckily, at a linnet, that I knocked him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hands, ran with him in triumph to my nurse.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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In countries like France, where the peasants constitute far more than half of the population, it was natural that writers who sided with the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, should use, in their criticism of the bourgeois regime, the standard of the peasant and petty bourgeois, and from the standpoint of these intermediate classes should take up the cudgels for the working class. Thus arose petty-bourgeois Socialism.
Karl Marx. The Communist Manifesto
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his opponent who threw away the rapier and snatched up the cudgel was the Russian people; those who try to explain the matter according to the rules of fencing are the historians who have described the event.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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